The drugs Wyoming police recovered in their raid.WYOMING -- A man arrested late last week as police confiscated 330 pounds of marijuana, as well as cocaine, from a home in a Wyoming neighborhood, may have Mexican drug cartel connections, court records show.

Officers with the Metropolitan Enforcement Team, a local drug unit, and Wyoming Police searched two houses Thursday in Wyoming as part of an ongoing investigation.

Francisco Rivera-HidalgoRivera-Hidalgo was arrested at the first house, 1125 Rathbone SW, where police found 11 pounds of marijuana, three grams of cocaine and two guns. That search led police to a second home, where a much larger cache of drugs was discovered.

Police found all the remaining marijuana at that house, as well as about two kilograms of cocaine. Officers estimated the drugs were worth about $500,000.

Court records show Rivera-Hidalgo, held on a $2.5 million bond, needs a interpreter to communicate for upcoming court hearings.

A man snowblowing a driveway near the Rathbone home said he knew Rivera-Hidalgo.

"I didn't have any idea he was involved in that," said John English. "He's a good guy. But you never know. "

English said he had worked with Rivera-Hidalgo years ago at a local factory.